Law and Religion Headlines
Wednesday, 7 February 2018
Court in Sudan fines Christians leaders for defending church property
(Morning Star News)
Father Tom releases book about 18 months’ captivity in Yemen
(World Watch Monitor)
Despite regular targeting and imprisonment, Christianity in Iran is spreading
(Bethany Blankley, Patheos)
Nigeria: Fears for captive Chibok girls as Boko Haram forced to flee
(World Watch Monitor)
Nigeria's middle belt report: Fulani militants and Boko Haram wreak havoc in January 2018
(Nathan Johnson, Persecution: International Christian Concern)
Notre Dame switches its position on birth-control coverage -- again
(Emma Green, The Atlantic)
Churches warn firms over pay, gender and climate change
(Angela Monaghan, The Guardian)
Mosque in east London to be demolished after high court ruling
(Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian)
New report finds ‘flicker of hope’ in North Korea
(World Watch Monitor)
Toyota's tone deaf religious Super Bowl ad angers Hindus
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)
Do Christians really believe in the power of prayer?
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)
Gen Z is the first post-Christian generation
(Kelly Frazier, World Religion News)
Praying for some snowboard diplomacy
(Richard Mouw, RNS Column: Civil Evangelicalism)
Islamic scholar courted fans, detractors before rape charges
(Elaine Ganley, Religion News Service)
Pope Benedict 5 years on: weaker, but ‘on a pilgrimage home’
(The Associated Press, Religion News Service)
In rare letter, Benedict XVI says he's 'on pilgrimage home'
(Elise Harris, Catholic News Agency)
As Cape Town’s water crisis nears ‘Day Zero,’ faith groups spring into action
(Brian Pellot, Religion News Service)
A Fear of Sharia: why the Independent Report is a wasted opportunity
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Religion News photos of the week
(Kit Doyle, Religion News Service)
EVENT, 7 February 2018: "Inspiring Faith in Humanity," 8th Celebration of the World Interfaith Harmony Week, United Nations
(United Nations Alliance of Civilizations)
5 facts about the religious lives of African Americans
(David Masci, Pew Research Center Fact Tank)
How Americans came to embrace meditation, and with it, Hinduism
(Vasudha Narayanan, Religion News Service)
Tuesday, 6 February 2018
Deliberate breach of faculty conditions
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Polish law barring some Holocaust speech signed, referred
(Vanessa Gera and Monika Scislowska, Associated Press)
Parliament’s action imperils Polish-Jewish relations
(Agnieszka Markiewicz, Religion News Service)
Israeli minister heads to Poland amid Holocaust bill uproar
(Associated Press)
Polish antisemitism during the second world war
(Andy Stelman and Zaki Cooper, The Guardian)
If you’re not sure why what’s happening in Poland matters so much, here’s what you need to know
(Thomas Hancocks, The Conversation)
Danish government proposes ban on full-face veils
(Agence France-Presse, The Guardian)
Denmark poised to ban Islamic full-face veils
(Harry Cockburn, Independent)
Burqa, hijab or niqab? What is she wearing?
(Deutsche Welle)
Muslim Board to decide strategy on Triple Talaq at Hyderabad meet
(IANS, The News Minute)
Muslim Law Board to ask grooms for oath against instant talaq
(Mohammed Wajihuddin, The Times of India)
Religion in Russia: Orthodox Christian anti-cult activist accused of targeting, harassing leading Hindu guru
(Cristina Maza, Newsweek)
Religious freedom should not eclipse other fundamental rights
(Mirah Curzer and Melissa Lee, The Hill)
Wall Street Journal: Milwaukee religious schools now overwhelmingly enroll voucher students
(Kevin Mahnken, The 74)
City’s 10 Commandments monument, King event draw complaints
(Associated Press)
Azerbaijan: Sufis raided, initial fine, Protestants raided
(Forum 18 News Service)
Despite denials, Pope received evidence against cleric accused of cover-up, sources say
(Daniel Burke and Rosa Flores, CNN)
Bureaucrats make silly enforcement of Yarovaya Law on Protestant church
(Novyi Kaliningrad, Russia Religion News)
Mani and Others v. Russia ("Yarovaya" case), ECtHR Communication Document
(European Court of Human Rights, Posting on the Strasbourg Consortium)
Jehovah's Witnesses try to shield property against confiscation
(Stolitsa na Onego, Russia Religion News)
Unidentified religious group rounded up by police; Are they Jehovah's Witnesses?
(SOVA Center for News and Analysis, Russia Religion News)
North Korea a decade on: The Regime has not changed, but the people have.
(Benedict Rogers, FoRB in Full (a blog by CSW))
The shifting landscape of Buddhism in America
(Ann Gleig, Lion's Roar)
Trump's new religious freedom ambassador praises Islamic scholars in first public speech
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)
To know Donald Trump’s faith is to understand his politics
(Martyn Percy, The Guardian)
How the Trump administration condones discrimination in the name of religion
(David L. Barkey, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Trump’s environmental good news
(Mark Silk, RNS: Spiritual Politics)
Five major actions of Trump’s first year defending religious liberty
(Kelly Shackelford, National Review)
What possible evidence does Ofsted chief have to suggest religious extremists are ‘perverting’ education?
(Chris Allen, The Conversation)
Chelsea soccer fans chant anti-Semitic songs less than a week after the team started an anti-hate campaign
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Church helps people in Colombia move from ‘vengeance’ to reconciliation
(Beth Griffin, Catholic News Service)
Mexico City’s new cardinal urges people to use faith to rebuild society
(David Agren, Catholic News Service)
Brazil police arrest sect members for enslavement
(BBC News)
Bishops of India told to do more to help former ‘untouchables’
(Nirmala Carvalho, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Moscow exhibit on Vatican-Russia ties latest sign of growing relationship
(Claire Giangravè, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
When are a candidate’s religious beliefs relevant?
(Eric Luckey, Commonweal)
Harnessing media for social change around female genital cutting
(Berkley Forum, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Ending FGM is everyone’s business (Responding to: Harnessing media for social change around female genital cutting)
(Tony Mwebia, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Shifting terrains: Lessons learnt from the first U.S. activist retreat for Bohras against female genital cutting (Responding to: Harnessing media for social change around female genital cutting)
(Mariya Taher, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
California court rules Christian baker cannot be forced to make cake for same-sex wedding
(Leonardo Blair, The Christian Post)
Judge: Baker can refuse to make same-sex wedding cakes
(Associated Press)
Cops: Woman says Voodoo ritual led her to kill sons, 5 and 8
(Associated Press)
Turkish religious leader discusses Islamic instruction
(Anadolu Agency)
Israeli rabbinical judges immune in state court at suggestion of State Department
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
European Court upholds company's religiously objectionable ads
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Denial of spousal health benefits because of religious-only ceremony may violate Equal Protection clause
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Surveys say younger evangelicals and Democrats abandoning Israel. Crisis in U.S. Middle East policy?
(Ira Rifkin, GetReligion)
Challenges to placement on terrorist watch list are dismissed
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Half of Iran wants to drop headscarf laws: government report
(Elizabeth Schumacher, Deutsche Welle)
Iranian women protest against mandatory wearing of the hijab
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)
Faith communities come together at 8th Annual World Interfaith Harmony Assembly
(Syracuse.com)
Bishops praise bipartisan work on immigration, say agreement needed urgently
(Catholic News Agency)
Vatican official praises China for witness to Catholic social teaching
(Catholic News Agency)
Vatican and China are patching up dispute over bishops
(Nathan Glover, World Religion News)
Tobin: U.S. bishops should only support clean DACA bill, fears mass deportations
(Christopher White, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Schoolgirls wearing a hijab is a path to extremism? Now that’s a leap
(Samira Shackle, The Guardian)
Women’s ministry opportunities grow in Indonesia
(Beth Stolicker, Mission Network News)
Super Bowl commercial asks you to discover Scientology
(Kelly Frazier, World Religion News)
Vatican-China bishops deal is 'imminent', sources say
(Elise Harris, Catholic News Agency)
Possible deal between Vatican and China alarms many Catholics
(Simon Denyer, The Washington Post)
FoRB in China: The UK needs to speak out
(FoRB in Full (a blog by CSW))
Mercedes in China apologizes for quoting Dalai Lama abroad
(Joe McDonald, Religion News Service)
German cardinal supports same-sex blessing ceremonies
(Alison Lesley, World Religion News)
Pope Francis received sex abuse victim’s letter, contradicting denial
(Nicole Winfield and Eva Vergara, Religion News Service)
Top German cardinal signals cautious support for blessing same-sex couples
(Tom Heneghan, Religion News Service)
On college campuses, some evangelicals find room to reflect
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)
What living with a death sentence can teach all of us about life
(Jonathan Merritt, RNS: On Faith & Culture)
Paul Ryan faces an urgent moral challenge
(John Gehring, Religion News Service)
If you build it, they will pray? Constructing religious worlds with Minecraft
(Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service)
Mexico City's new cardinal urges people to use faith to rebuild society
(David Agren, The Pilot)
EVENT, 6 February 2018: Religion and Politics in an Age of Fracture: Davis, Inazu, Patel
(Washington University in St. Louis)
Canadian Senate passes bill to make anthem 'gender-neutral'
(Grace Carr, The Daily Signal)
Monday, 5 February 2018
A review of marriage and divorce law in England and Wales?
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Not just numbers, displaced people need to share their stories study finds
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
February 4: Justice department issues religious liberty memo, trains church security, and more
(Religious Freedom Review: Weekly updates on religious freedom in America)
Advertising and faith: A European court vindicates a fashion designer whose images upset Catholics
(Erasmus, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Latin America bishops call on US to ‘love the stranger’ in statement on immigration policies
(Episcopal News Service)
The Super Bowl’s best commercial starred a rabbi [Watch]
(Josefin Dolsten, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
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